http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/29/if-you-think-the-religious-right-wants-a-cure-for-aids-youd-be-dead-wrong/
From The Telegraph:
Danish scientists are expecting results that will show that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible”.
They are conducting clinical trials to test a “novel strategy” in which the HIV virus is stripped from human DNA and destroyed permanently by the immune system.
The move would represent a dramatic step forward in the attempt to find a cure for the virus, which causes Aids.
This may or may not be finally happening. But let’s say this is true. If not now, then in the near future. What will the reaction be? Elation from the LGBT community, celebration on the left and a sigh of relief from the health insurance industry (HIV treatment is expensive). But what about the right-wing? Well, if history tells us anything. the GOP will deeply opposed to a cure. Especially a cheap one.
Why? You won’t like the answer.Conservatives, particularly religious conservatives LOVE HIV. They absolutely love it. They love it because it disproportionately affect homosexuals and IV drug users and anything that hurts “sinners” is perfectly fine with them. Added bonus? It also hits “fornicators” and mostly leaves married monogamous couples alone.I guarantee you, and I’ll place a money bet on it, that even if this one turns out to be a bust,when a real cure for HIV is announced, the religious right will throw a hissy fit and the GOP will kowtow to them. My proof of this deeply cynical and anti-human stance? HPV.In 2006, an extremely effective vaccine for HPV (human papilloma virus) was created and put into widespread distribution. HPV is a very common sexually transmitted virus (upwards of 80% of American women reportedly have it) and while for most it is harmless, in some it causes cervical cancer.
like any other business demand drives supply at a cost not friendly to you, they make billions. so why would they want to release a cure, they are apathetic to your care and driven by treatment, squeeze the dollatr bill till the eagle grins.
What happened when politicians put the vaccine into widespread use? The religious right freaked out because eliminating an STD “promotes” promiscuity. I’m dead serious.
Via Slate:
Much less understandable, though, is the position taken by many opponents: namely, that a cervical-cancer vaccination would “promote promiscuity” among teenage girls. Implicit in this argument is the assumption that good girls don’t get cervical cancer; only “loose” ones do—and they may get what they deserve. Earlier this year, State Sen. George Runner of California told the Los Angeles Times that American money would be much better spent on other types of vaccines, since cervical cancer is a result of lifestyle choices, rather than bad genetic luck.Can you even hold in your mind the lack of compassion and empathy required to want to use cervical cancer as a way to punish women for having sex? Oh sorry, I meant “promote abstinence.” And from “Christians” no less?
well that confirms that the war on women as denied by republicans is a live and well and rumors of it's nonexistence have been greatly exaggerated.
